NAACP talking to Justice Department about Zimmerman case

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story from Jul 14, 2013, titled NAACP talking to Justice Department about Zimmerman case.
In it, Click2Houston reports that:

Leaders at the nation's oldest civil rights organization have spoken with senior members of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's team at the Justice Department about pursuing federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, NAACP president Ben Jealous said Sunday, though Holder himself has noted the high bar for establishing a hate crime.

Yes sir, Zimmermanís life was officially over the night he stalked and killed that teenaged boy. Zimmerman will be sued in civil courtÖ and heíll have to work the rest of his life for Trayvonís family, and thatís after he does federal timeÖ and mind you heíll never know if someone is going to come up behind him and gun him down like he did Trayvon.

Yes sir, Zimmermanís life was officially over the night he stalked and killed that teenaged boy. Zimmerman will be sued in civil courtÖ and heíll have to work the rest of his life for Trayvonís family, and thatís after he does federal timeÖ and mind you heíll never know if someone is going to come up behind him and gun him down like he did Trayvon.

The only way to call this an injustice or to call Zimmerman guilty requires you to presume that Travon Martin did not physically and without legal authority assault Zimmerman before he was shot. It is just as wrong to presume that as it is to presume that all blacks are thieves and up to know good.

Travon Martin does not have the right to hit or assault Zimmerman simply because he is being followed. If you walk through my neighborhood and I think you suspicious and follow you till the police get there you can not assault me even if you are not suspicious.

If a store employee follows you because your are black and they think blacks are thieves you can't hit them, apparently the Zimmerman haters do not understand this.

Yes sir, Zimmerman¬ís life was officially over the night he stalked and killed that teenaged boy. Zimmerman will be sued in civil court¬Ö and he¬íll have to work the rest of his life for Trayvon¬ís family, and that¬ís after he does federal time¬Ö and mind you he¬íll never know if someone is going to come up behind him and gun him down like he did Trayvon.

Travon Martin does not have the right to hit or assault Zimmerman simply because he is being followed. If you walk through my neighborhood and I think you suspicious and follow you till the police get there you can not assault me even if you are not suspicious.

Especially, dearie, if you have that equalizer of a gun. You would be asked not to follow, stay in your car and let the police ascertain whether a young man with skittles and an iced tea is "suspicious".

The only way to call this an injustice or to call Zimmerman guilty requires you to presume that Travon Martin did not physically and without legal authority assault Zimmerman before he was shot. It is just as wrong to presume that as it is to presume that all blacks are thieves and up to know good.Travon Martin does not have the right to hit or assault Zimmerman simply because he is being followed. If you walk through my neighborhood and I think you suspicious and follow you till the police get there you can not assault me even if you are not suspicious.If a store employee follows you because your are black and they think blacks are thieves you can't hit them, apparently the Zimmerman haters do not understand this.Trayvon by hitting Zimmerman brought this tragedy on himself.

Trayvon was protecting himself...standing his ground. apparently that's really only applicable to white/chicano thugs with guns, though

He was acquitted by a jury of his peers. Case closed! If the doj prosecuted it will be solely because of political pressure not a search for justice! If Zimmerman is smart he will cash out and leave the country.

Lesson #1 if a person attacks you they are the criminal breaking the law. Travon was never going to amount to nothing in his life. But now the whole population of the U>S>A has to suffer. When Travon was alive he was just like any other black teen that nobody cares about. A teen making the transition into the future of public assistance and the correctional system. Eat some skiddles?????

Unfortunately, nobody really proved anything in the last 3 weeks and that's why Zimmerman is not guilty. I do not think we will ever know what happened. Trayvon Martin was examined closely and he was definitely associated with people and things that portrayed him as the type of person who was into being a "gansta" and not someone who wanted to be looked at as an upstanding young member of society, aspiring to be smart and educated and willing to work hard to better himself. George Zimmerman was examined closely and he was definitely associated with things that portrayed him as the type of person who was into being a vigilante and wannabe cop and extremely lacking in the ability to make good judgments. I am still not sure of what happened that night and I was depending on this trial to shed some light on those events. Both men were in the wrong place at the wrong time, knowingly doing things to make the other feel threatened and in need of defending their lives. In the name of not mistakenly convicting an innocent man, the state didn't come anywhere near proving that Zimmerman murdered Martin rather than killing him in self defense. The jury had no choice, given the evidence they were provided.

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